Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: dsa: remove phylink_validate() method

[Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 01:48:06PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> Not all DSA drivers provide config->mac_capabilities, for example
> mv88e6060, lan9303 and vsc73xx don't. However, there have been users of
> those drivers on recent kernels and no one reported that they fail to
> establish a link, so I'm guessing that they work (somehow). But I must
> admit I don't understand why phylink_generic_validate() works when
> mac_capabilities=0. Anyway, these drivers did not provide a
> phylink_validate() method before and do not provide one now, so nothing
> changes for them.

> diff --git a/net/dsa/port.c b/net/dsa/port.c
> index 208168276995..6e417cdcdb7b 100644
> --- a/net/dsa/port.c
> +++ b/net/dsa/port.c
> @@ -1532,22 +1532,6 @@ static struct phy_device *dsa_port_get_phy_device(struct dsa_port *dp)
>  	return phydev;
>  }
>  
> -static void dsa_port_phylink_validate(struct phylink_config *config,
> -				      unsigned long *supported,
> -				      struct phylink_link_state *state)
> -{
> -	struct dsa_port *dp = container_of(config, struct dsa_port, pl_config);
> -	struct dsa_switch *ds = dp->ds;
> -
> -	if (!ds->ops->phylink_validate) {
> -		if (config->mac_capabilities)
> -			phylink_generic_validate(config, supported, state);

Ah, I think I was reading the code wrong, now I think I understand how
phylink_generic_validate() works when config->mac_capabilities=0:
it doesn't; it just wasn't called by the old code.

It will be called after my patch though, so this will break things. I
guess we'll still need a "custom" phylink_validate() which does
something approximating this?

static void dsa_port_phylink_validate(struct phylink_config *config,
				      unsigned long *supported,
				      struct phylink_link_state *state)
{
	if (config->mac_capabilities) // avoid breaking drivers which don't set this
		phylink_generic_validate(config, supported, state);
}

or what else would be preferred?

> -		return;
> -	}
> -
> -	ds->ops->phylink_validate(ds, dp->index, supported, state);
> -}

In any case, please don't merge this as-is, and sorry for realizing the
breakage after the fact.